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Delete

To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.

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Broader term 5

Censor 76% connected

One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals a…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Pull 76% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Remove 76% connected

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Withdraw 76% connected

To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 7

Demagnetize 76% connected

To deprive of magnetic properties. See Magnetize.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Efface 76% connected

To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indisc…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Erase 76% connected

To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Excise 76% connected

In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Expunge 76% connected

To blot out, as with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Scratch 76% connected

To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Strike 76% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Derivationally related 2

Eraser 74% connected

One who, or that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings, drawings, etc.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Eraser 74% connected

One who, or that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings, drawings, etc.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 3

Cancel 92% connected

To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Edit 92% connected

To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to e…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Erase 92% connected

To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Antonym 2

Record 94% connected

To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Record 94% connected

To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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